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A65182	Voyages and discoveries in South-America the first up the river of Amazons to Quito in Peru, and back again to Brazil, perform'd at the command of the King of Spain by Christopher D'Acugna : the second up the river of Plata, and thence by land to the mines of Potosi by Mons Acarete : the third from Cayenne into Guiana, in search of the lake of Parima, reputed the richest place in the world by M. Grillet and Bechamel : done into English from the originals, being the only accounts of those parts hitherto extant : the whole illustrated with notes and maps.	Acuña, Cristóbal de, b. 1597. Nuevo descubrimiento del gran rio de las Amazonas. English.; Acarete, du Biscay, 17th cent. Relation des voyages dans la rivière de la Plate. English.; Grillet, Jean, 1624-1677. Journal du voyage qu'on fait les Per̀es Jean Grillet et François Bećhamel ... dans la Goyane l'an 1674. English.; Béchamel, François, 1637-1676.	1698 (1698)	Wing V746; ESTC R1215	153,168	365

for the building of 'em in those Parts but only of Iron for the forging of Nails and other pieces of Smiths Work necessary to the building of great and small Vessels All other things are found in this Country in great Plenty The Inhabitants make Cables of the Bark of Trees they have Pitch and Tar as good as are to be had in Europe and they have Oil either to render it firm and solid or to temper its Hardness one sort of which they draw from Fish and another sort they get from Trees They make a sort of Tow which they call Ambira so good that no better can be used for the caulking of Vessels and to make Musket-Match Their Cotton abundantly furnishes 'em with Stuff to make Sails and this grows the best of all the small Seeds they sow in their Fields And after all there are so great numbers of People that one might have as many Work-men and Sea-men as one pleas'd for the building and manning of as many Galleons as one should think meet to put upon the Stocks CHAP. XXXII Four things which abound on the Banks of this River which are capable of inriching great Kingdoms THere are four things along this River which being well manag'd would be capable of enriching many Kingdoms the first is Wood for building of which there is some found of a rare and particular Colour like fine Ebony and there is so prodigious a quantity of common Wood that is worth transporting that how much soever should be carried away the Country can never be exhausted The second thing is the Coco-tree which serves for the Composition of Chocolat with these the Banks of the River are covered and throughout our whole Voyage our Men cut scarce any thing else to make Huts of for our Camp This Tree is very much esteem'd for its Fruit throughout all New Spain and in all other Places where it is known what Chocolat is Every Foot of this Tree will produce eight Silver Rials all Charges paid And it may easily be suppos'd there 's no need of great labour to cultivate these Trees along this River seeing Nature without the Assistance of Husbandry and Art makes 'em bring forth Fruit in so great abundance The third is Tobacco of which there is a prodigious quantity along this River which is very much esteem'd by all the Natives so that if it were raised with that Care this Plant requires it would be the best Tobacco in the World because in the Judgment of those that understand it there can't be desired a better Soil and Climat for this sort of Plant than what is to be found on this River But that which is the most considerable of all and for the sake of which in my opinion it would be very well worth the while to make firm and substantial Establishments along this River is Sugar This is the fourth thing and the Traffick of it is more honourable as well as the Profit more sure and greater for a Nation than that of the rest And now since we are ingag'd in a War with the Dutch it ought to excite an Emulation in us and make us endeavour to furnish our selves with those Commodities our Enemies bring from Brazil and we ought to establish our selves with all Expedition in this Countrey and set up Mills and other Sugar-Works which would neither require very much Time nor Labour nor Charge which last is that which is most fear'd now a days The Ground is as good for the planting of Sugar-Canes as any is in the whole Continent of Brazil and of this we can give Assurance as having seen and known all those Provinces The Soil on the Banks of this River is white and fat of as good a kind as can be desired by those that know what belongs to the Cultivation of these Plants and it becomes so fruitful and rich by the Inundations of the River which by continuing a few days improve the Ground that there is more reason to fear too great than too little a Crop 'T will be no new thing to make Sugar-Canes grow in this Country because we found throughout the whole Length of this great River such as gave us sufficient Proof of the great abundance to which they might be multiplied whenever any People should apply themselves to cultivate 'em and to make Sugar-Mills which might be done with a little Charge at any time not only because there 's all sorts of Wood in great plenty as I have already said but also because there is the Conveniency of Water for 'em in as great quantity as one can desire There is nothing wanting but Copper which we may supply in sending it thither from our own Country and which we may be sure will turn to a considerable Account CHAP. XXXIII Many other Commodities profitable for Traffick which are found in this Country BEsides these four sorts of Commodities that may be brought from these Lands that are discover'd capable of inriching the whole World there are also many others which altho less rare would not fail to bring a considerable Profit to a Nation such as Cotton that grows there abundantly Rocou that our Dyers use to make fine Scarlet which is so esteem'd by all Nations that have Commerce with us Cassia and Sarsaparilla there are made also several Oils for the healing of Wounds which equal the best Balsams there are found Gums and Rosins of an admirable Scent and a certain Plant call'd Pita which yields the best Thred in the World and which the Ground produces in vast plenty and a thousand other things the Usefulness and Advantages of which are discover'd every day CHAP. XXXIV Convincing Reasons to shew that many of the Mountains of this Countrey must needs contain Mines of Gold and Silver I Do not speak of the many Mines of Gold and Silver which are discover'd in the conquer'd Countries nor those which Time may further discover there but I am mightily mistaken in my Judgment if many others may not be found in this Countrey more rich than all those of Peru tho the famous Mountain of Potosi be comprehended in it I speak not this without ground nor only with a design to advance the Value of this great River but found what I say upon Reason and Experience because I have seen a great deal of Gold among the Indians whom we met as we went down the River who gave us very certain Assurances that there were a great number of Gold and Silver Mines in their Country This great River receives all the Waters of the richest Countries of America On the South-side those rich Rivers some of which have their Sources round about Potosi others at the Foot of Guanico which is a Mountain near the City of Lima flow into it others come down from Cusco others from Cuenca and from Gibaros which is the richest Country for Gold of any that has been yet discovered so that on this side all the Rivers Sources little Springs and

the French in those American Islands call'd the Antilles These Boucaniers have perform'd such surprizing Exploits against the Spaniards at Porto-Velo at Panama in New Spain and elsewhere that what we are told in the Accounts of the Country concerning 'em are almost incredible but that a Spaniard has lately taken care to immortalize their Memory who has in his own Language given us the History of divers Expeditions of these Adventurers in a Volumn in 4to Printed at Cologne in the Year 1681 with Figures Note 25 P. 43. Monsieur Fontaine is Commissary or Assistant to Monsieur Fouret who has very fine Sugar-Works at Cayenne A RELATION OF GVIANA AND OF THE COMMERCE THAT May be Settled there GViana is a great Country on the Continent of Northern America which extends in Latitude from the Equinoctial Line to the Tenth Degree on the side of the Arctique Pole and in Longitude from the River of Amazons to the Orenoque which contains near Four Hundred Leagues on the Sea-Coasts with an immense Stretch into the Countries that border upon Brazil on the South-side and New Audalousia on the West Our French Seamen are wont to call Guiana by the Name of the North-Cape because that is the most remarkable Cape on that Coast and those that have Business in those Parts commonly put ashoar there to get some Knowledge of the Country This Cape is between the 2 and 3 Degrees of Northern Latitude and between the 345 and the 346 Degrees of Longitude This Part of the Continent is water'd with abundance of Rivers some of which will carry great Vessels up a considerable Way beyond the Mouths of 'em and upon the Shoars of 'em an infinite Number of Plantations might be made which would turn to a very considerable Account as well in regard of the Traffick that might be made with the Natives and the Fishing-Trade that might be carried on in these Rivers and along the Sea-Coast as of the Product of the Labour and Industry of the Planters The divers Settlements the French have made there at different Times sufficiently prove the Possibility of living in good Correspondence with the Indians provided they be treated civilly and with more Honesty and Sincerity than they have done who have hitherto had the Conduct of these kind of Enterprizes fall into their Hands The ill Treatment the Natives have receiv'd from them for which they have sometimes made themselves amends by way of Reprizal have not render'd 'em irreconcileable as we have been taught by Experience when we have made tryal of it on different Occasions They are tolerably endued with good Sense which they have opportunity to cultivate and refine by a long Train of Experiences with which the many Years they live furnish 'em For they count a Man dies young if he don't live above 100 Years They have a pretty good Judgment and have good rational Thoughts about things within the Compass of their Notice and within the Reach of the Light of Nature with which alone they are furnish'd They observe their Words with great Exactness and inviolably practise the Maxim of not doing to others what they would not have others do to them They are rather inclin'd to Peace than War which yet they engage in either when they have some just Quarrel or when Revenge or Honour prompt 'em to it They are sufficiently industrious and although they have both Patience and Skill in Fishing and Hunting yet they have the Fore-sight not to let their Subsistance depend upon Hazard and therefore willingly cultivate their Ground in proportion to their Occasions and the Bigness of their Families Before Europe had furnish'd them with Tools of Iron and Steel for this Purpose they made themselves some of hard Stones but besides that the Labour of making 'em was intolerable the Pains they took in using of 'em was also so very great that they laid aside the use of 'em as soon as they found they could do more Work in a Day with our Hatchets Bills and Knives than they could do in 6 Months with their Stone Tools which now are good for nothing but to be kept in the Closets of the Curious as so many Proofs of the wonderful Patience of those People They speak a Tongue which is not only understood by all the Nations which the Spaniards on one side and the Portugese on the other have oblig'd to retire into Guiana but is also intelligible to the Carraibes who are the Natives of the Antilles and use this Language Which I have known by the Indians of the Isles of St. Vincent St. Domingo and others where I had occasion to converse with them In short this Language is spoken for the Space of above Four Hundred Leagues on the Sea-Coasts and in many Places above Sixscore Leagues up in the Country They bring up all sorts of tame Fowl which they exchange with us for Toys as well as wild Fowl and other Game which is there in great Plenty as also abundance both of Sea and Fresh-water Fish They build us Houses after their Fashion which are commodious enough for the Country they clear our Ground and carry our Letters they serve to load and unload Merchant Ships and in a Word there 's scarce any kind of Service but may be obtain'd of 'em by a courteous Carriage and by giving 'em a few Trifles of a small Value when they have occasion for ' em They undertake even to load Ships entirely with a kind of Fish which they catch in the Rivers with a sort of Harping-Iron and this they perform upon such reasonble Terms that those who follow this Trade by their Means always find an extraordinary Profit in it because the Vent of 'em is always speedy and certain in the Islands where there is a great Consumption of 'em made so that one may say this sort of Fish and the Sea-Tortoise are the Cod-fish of the Continent and the Antego Islands And 't is the Manna upon which the Colonies between the Tropiques live as much as many of the Europeans and some others do upon Cod-fish This Fishing Trade is practis'd all the Year in most of the Rivers on this Coast except the Fishing for Tortoise which holds but 3 or 4 Months in the Year during which the Females come to lay their Eggs in the Sand beyond the Marks that are left of the highest Tides and that in so great abundance especially on the Shoars that are least frequented as can hardly be imagin'd For 10 Men can turn as many of 'em in a Night as 100 can dress in a Week In the Night which is the only time they take to lay their Eggs they wait 'till they have pass'd the Bounds which the highest Tides have mark'd and then turn 'em upon their Backs and being once in this Posture they can by no means recover themselves upon their Feet to go back into the Sea Among the Plants which the Indians cultivate in their Plantations Cotton is one of those